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Art (Arts & Photography, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Art (Arts & Photography, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.49, median 538 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).

30Opportunity / 100
$8.49Median price
538Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$2.99 – $11.99
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)4%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Only 4% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 82% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 81% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 538 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Art best sellers

  1. Art, Annotated: The World's 500 Greatest Paintings Explained book cover by DK

    Art, Annotated: The World's 500 Greatest Paintings Explained

    by DK

    • List rank#1
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews137

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  2. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon) book cover by Austin Kleon

    Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)

    by Austin Kleon

    • List rank#2
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews20,373

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  3. Letters to Camondo book cover by Edmund De Waal

    Letters to Camondo

    by Edmund De Waal

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews943

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  4. Amazing Optical Illusions: Visual Illusion Picture Book (Brain Teasers 1) book cover by Barry Buggles

    Amazing Optical Illusions: Visual Illusion Picture Book (Brain Teasers 1)

    by Barry Buggles

    • List rank#4
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating3.5
    • Reviews2,388

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  5. The Monolith and Its Influences book cover by Robert Castle

    The Monolith and Its Influences

    by Robert Castle

    • List rank#5
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews6

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  6. The Bayeux Tapestry: Discover the real story behind the creation of the masterpiece book cover by Carola Hicks

    The Bayeux Tapestry: Discover the real story behind the creation of the masterpiece

    by Carola Hicks

    • List rank#6
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews95

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  7. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Mad book cover by Jason Schreier

    Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

    by Jason Schreier

    • List rank#7
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews5,357

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  8. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History book cover by Robert M. Edsel

    The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

    by Robert M. Edsel

    • List rank#8
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews5,907

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  9. Watercolor for the Soul: Simple Painting Projects for Beginners, to Calm, Soothe and Inspi book cover by Sharone Stevens

    Watercolor for the Soul: Simple Painting Projects for Beginners, to Calm, Soothe and Inspire

    by Sharone Stevens

    • List rank#9
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,141

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  10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book cover by Patrick Bringley

    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

    by Patrick Bringley

    • List rank#10
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews4,960

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FAQ

Is Art a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 538 reviews and sells for $8.49.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Art?

The median best seller has 538 reviews, and 26% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Art best sellers cost?

The median price is $8.49; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $11.99.

Can new books break into Art?

4% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.

About this data

Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.